[Mitworld] New: Paul Farmer on Global Health, Lasnik and Uriagereka on Syntax

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[GLOBAL HEALTH EQUITY]

For the past 20 years, Paul Farmer has been toppling orthodoxies
concerning the delivery of health care to people of developing nations,
and to our country's inner city poor. In a talk full of insights and
anecdotes, Farmer brings his audience up to date on his groundbreaking
work and methods.

SPEAKER:
Paul Farmer
Founder, Partners in Health
Associate Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health
Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/514/>

[QUOTE]
"There's a whole set of arguments against doing the right thing that I
regard as absurd. The chief barrier to advancing this is nay-saying,
low expectations, a constant undertow of censorious opinion. As if it
weren't hard enough to do the work, you have to fight a lot of
skepticism, not from the patients, or family members, or coworkers, but
from your peers."
-- Paul Farmer


EVENT HOST: School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
<http://web.mit.edu/shass/>

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[STRUCTURE DEPENDENCE, THE RATIONAL LEARNER, AND PUTNAM'S SANE PERSON]

In part 5 of the symposium series Where Does Syntax Come From? Have We
All Been Wrong? Lasnik proposes a twist on Chomsky's classic doctrine:
maybe grammar doesn't have to be innate after all, because it turns out
that people can actually learn phrase structure rules. If these rules
are fundamental to language, Uriagereka asks, shouldn't we also look
for them in other aspects of intelligent human communication, such as
music and mathematics?

SPEAKER:
Howard Lasnik
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Linguistics,
University of Maryland

SPEAKER:
Juan Uriagereka
Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/515/>


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